This is the test that my son took, and while I'm by no means an expert, I share what I've learned.
It seems to be a common choice for young boys (My DS was 4 at the time) because they tend to be less focused than older children, but I don't know the actual differences.
His scores were:
General Conceptual Ability -- 99th
Nonverbal Reasoning -- 84th
Verbal Cluster -- 96th
Spatial Cluster -- 99.9th
In looking at his subtest scores, he had one (matrices) that was 3 standard deviations from most of his other scores, obviously pulling the overall score down.
He's now 5. I suspect that he has dyslexia based on other things (especially difficulty rhyming, trouble blending) so I tried very hard to see if the DAS-II had anything that would offer a clue to if this might be an issue. Some digging showed that a testing profile with a lower non-verbal and high spatial score was more common in individuals with dyslexia.
We homeschool and we haven't had him tested for dyslexia because my understanding is that schools don't typically start to worry until 3rd grade and we can't afford private testing. However, I've started working on reading with him using a somewhat modified version of The Wilson Program and we're having a lot of success with it. (A friend is a former special ed teacher and she loaned me the manual, but not having had the real training and not having the real materials, I can't say that I'm really doing the program as they say. However, it's given me a structure, which seems to have helped.) It's become very apparent that he's mixing up the p d and b, but that's also considered normal at his age. So I can't really say that he definitely has dyslexia or whether this particular method is just clicking for him or what.
Anyway, that's been my experience...
